THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, DECEMBER 0, 1918.
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Reconstruction Problems Now
Demand Attention.
EMERGENCY IS RAISED
Request of Bethlehem Steel Com
pan 7 for Withdrawal of um
1 laers I Denied.
NEW TORK. Pee- I. Charlea M.
Schwab, whose resla-natlon aa director-
Ceneral of tba Emergency Fleet Cor
poration was accepted br President
Wilson yesterday In a wireless message,
will return Immediately to active par
ticipation In the management of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, he an
nounced at his home here tonight.
The emergency for which I entered
the Government service has passed."
tor. Schwab said- The . Kmergency
leet Corporation has been placed on
a basis tor economic construction,
rather than wartime construction. My
own affairs are of such magnitude that
I feel that I will be of greater service
to the country there during the period
of reconstruction than I would be as
director of the fleet corporation." Mr.
Kchwab raid that while . he expected
some economic troubles during the re
construction period, be believed that
nertod would be short and that th
Nation would emerge to greater Indus
trial development than ever before.
"I am going right ahead in the same
optimistic and progressive spirit as i
the past." he declared-
Mr. Schwab expressed deep appre
ciation of the tribute President Wilson
said him In the message accepting bl
resignation, and declared that had he
failed la tba task assigned him b
would have hsd only himself to blame.
Loyal Sapport Clvea.
"1 want to say." continued Mr.
Pchwab. "that during tny nine month
as director of the Fleet Corporation
met with the most loyal support from
the President down.
The President was exceptionally
helpful, carrying out to the letter his
promise that he would let me do things
in my own way. Mr. Hurley, as presi
dent of the Shipping Board, and Mr.
Pies as vice-president and general
manager of the Fleet Corporation, co-
operated In an admirable spirit. So
did every other man with whom I was
associated In the work or D una log amps
for the Nation."
work, in Portland. Mr. Dean was born
In Morayshire, Scotland. In 1134. and Is
survived by one sister In Scotland; an
other sister. Mrs. Monro: two nieces,
Alice Munro and Wllllma Munro. of
Portland, and a nephew, James Munro.
of Boise, Idaho.
Warren If. M. Drescher. 39. local
manager of the Colorado Fuel & Iron
Company, died yesterday at his home,
434 Fast Twenty-first srreet North. He
had lived in Portland since 1S10. Mr.
Drescher was born in Hannibal, Mo.
He went to work for the Colorado Fuel
A Iron Company -when he was 18 years
old, and had been In their employ ever
since. He came to Portland from Salt
Lake City. Utah, and la well known In
Seattle, Wash., where he also had
supervision of the fuel company's af
fairs. He Is survived by a widow and
two children.
Flavlus D. Jones, whose death oc
curred at his home, 2006 Hawthorne
avenue, December 1. had been a real
dent of Oregon for 33 years. Death was
due to an influensa attack. Besides his
Immediate family he leaves the follow
ing brothers and sisters: Mrs. Mary
Sumstine, of Boone, la.; D. C. Jones, of
Camas Valley, Or.; N. H. Jones, of Port
lsnd, now stationed at Camp Meigs.
Washington, D. C; Mrs. Josie Worth
Ington. of Phoenix. Arts., and Mrs. Etta
Albright, of Portland. Tbe funeral
was held December .
SHELL-Td FRANCE
VISITED BY EDITORS
Ghastly Ruin Seen in 140-Mile
Trip Along Front.
WAR'S HORRORS DEPICTED
James H. Imhoff. 71 years of age, of
163 Fast Seventeenth street, who con
ducted for years a monument business
on Grand avenue died on Friday after
noon of heart failure. He is survived
by his widow and two children. Mrs.
Frank Deuster. 792 Melrose avenue.
and Arthur S. Imhoff, who lives with
his mother; his step-brother, I. H.
Kakln, former banker of Sheridan, Or.,
and his sister-in-law, Mrs., Susan Im
hoff, of 810 Thurman street.
Only One Bright Memory Remains,
Optimism of People Taking:
Up Life Anew.
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fOoitlnoed From Firwt Pace.)
SIW TORK. Dec 8. The National
War Labor Board made public here to
night an order denying the request of
the Bethlehem Steel Company that the
board's examiners be withdrawn from
tbe company'a machine shops.
Also that It be permitted to "make
the necessary arrangements of our
working forces to meet the new peace
time conditions."
Order Takes lost.
The order, which-was) In the form of
a letter to E. O. Grace, president of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, signed by
William H. Taft and Basil M. Manly.
Joint chairmen of the board, took sharp
Issue with Mr. Grace's statement that
the company was "unable to adopt" the
finding of the examiners in favor of
the machine shop employes, "as It wai
preceded by the cessation of hostili
ties." -
The board characterised his letter as
"refusal to respect tbe authority of the
War Labor Board." which It was de
rlared would continue until President
Wilson proclaimed tbe signing of the
Tears treaties, and Insisted that its
findings be carried out "fully and
promptly."
Mr. Grace's attitude, the board held.
Involved tbe good faith not only of the
Bethlehem Steel Company, but of the
Government as welL
Asserting that Its action In assuming
supervision of labor problems at the
Bethlehem plant resulted from repre
sentations ef War Department officials
that "conditions In the Bethlehem Steel
Company were greatly endangering the
success of the prosecution of the war.
the board said it "exerted every re
source" to keep the men at work. Mr.
Grace. It was said, personally approved
a system ef collective bargaining which
brought about greater Industrial effort
oa the part of the workers.
"Tou now wish to repudiate that sys
tern of collective bargaining," the com
munication says, "and ask that the
beard's examiners be withdrawn.
Meat May B. Discharged.
The findings of tba board do not re
quire you to continue in your employ
ment any man whose services are no
longer needed because of the cancella
tion of war contracts. The board doea
require, however, that you carry out
In good faith the findings of the board
' upon the basis of which your employes
consented to remain at work, and thus
maintained the production and profits
of your company.
"If the award should now be repu
diated your workmen would have every
reason to feel that they had been de
ceived and grossly Imposed upon by
your company, by tbe War Labor Board
and by other Government officials who
persuaded them to remain at work on
the assursnce that they would be just
ly dealt with."
ALAMEDA STRIKE IS EXDEC
Boilermakers aad Iron Shipbuilders
Vote to Return.
OAKLAND. 'Cal.. Dec: 8. Approxi
mately 70S members of the boiler
makers and Iron shipbuilders union
who have been on strike two weeks,
agreed by a large majority today to
return to work in the Alameda plant
of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation.
"Alleged discrimination against the
night shifts in connection with tbe 44
hours' week schedule, and demands
that the men be paid on the company's
time and not during their off time and
that union business agents be per
mitted to enter the yards, were the
issues of the strike.
H. C. Capwell. president of the Oak
land Chamber -of Commerce, told the
men that K. H. Brotherton, labor ex
aminer for the Emergency Fleet Cor
poration. practically had agreed to
every demand of the union and that the
corporation had promised to abide by
Brotherton decision.
FREEDOM DF SEAS TOPIC
REV. Jilt. ST.VNS FIELD LACDS
BRITISH XAVAIi STRENGTH.
Speaker Predicts President Has
Something to Learn About
So-called Freedom.
Is a stirring sermon which antici
pates one of the great questions con
fronting the peace table. Rev. Joshua
Stansfield, of tbe First Methodist
Church, presented a spirited brief for
England's retention of her power of the
seaa in his sermon. "Our Strongest
Ally." yesterday morning. Rev. Stans
field's argument was evldentlybased o
the supposition that President Wilson
Interpretation of "Freedom of the Seas'
would mean the reducing of the Englis
navy.
"Even our most distinguished clti
sen. he whose great foresight and mar
velous clearness of expression have
done so much for us. will yet hsve
something to learn about the so-calle
freedom of the seas," said Rev. Stans
field. "Britain has never used her
great sea power unjustly. I do not
think, in the light of history, she ever
11L History is philosophy speaking
in events, and in these events as I have
seen them in the past four or five
years. I have learned that Britain hold
her sea power in trust for the nation
of the world. Had it not oeen for Bri
tain's power of the seas, America
never would have been in this war. ex
cept that the war had been brought to
our shores by Germany. But with Bri
tain s sea power we have been able to
cross to our duty and to do that duty
for God and for humanity, and ou
great President should listen well to
the voices of the events of the paBt aa
well as look keenly into the distant
future.
In times of peace the seas should
be free, but in times of war I am un
willing that that great arm of British
power should be tied or palsied. I hope
and trust and believe, however, that it
shall not be that these "great Allies shall
have a rupture, the very thing Germany
la hoping for. Britain is big enough
nd strong enough and generous
enough to concede to the utmost, as this
nation will, and all must do, and I ra
ther think there will be no rupture.
This is not a conference of nations
for the division of spoils; this la a con
ference of nations for the world's
greatest need and the greatest good for
humanity. And Britain, the symbol of
high patriotism and peace, will be as
she always has been the symbol of pa
triotlsm and peace and prosperity for
humanity now and forever to come.
Let us remember, we of this day, to
read our history carefully and when we
think of the time when we rose against
the mother country and gained our in
dependence that we rose against the
me kind of tyranny that Germany
was seeking to impose upon the world
and that the deep heart of the British
people of that time was not behind nor
in sympathy with that tyranny, and
hat today Great Britain la a righteous,
liberty-loving nation whose 'God is the
Lord and that she Is our greatest ally.
"(Jueen Victoria, asked for the4 reason
of Britain's greatness, produced a Bible
nd holding it forth said. This is it- A
people whose God Is the Lord.'
This British flag and that American
flag say more for human liberty and
human righta and pledge more of peace
and prophecy for the future than all
the flags In the world. And with these
two peoples standing together the free
om and peace of the world will be
guaranteed and maintained."
47 1. VV. W. TO BE TRIED
CONSPIRACY TO EXCOVRAGE
SABOTAGE IS CHARGE.
Since Defendants Were
Four Have Died and
Pleaded Guilty.
Indicted
One
Obituary.
FCNERAL services for the late Will
iam Dean will be held this after
noon at 3 o'clock from the undertaking
parlors of Edward Holman & Co. All
friends are invited to attend.
William Dean, native ef Scotland and
a resident of Portland since lis!, died
Friday at his late residence, the home
of his sister. Mrs.. Jane D. Munro. 423
Fast Sixteenth street North. For more
than 30 years Mr. Dean was connected
with the Willamette Iron & Steel
Works, retiring from active service
about 15 years ago. At the time of his
death he was next to oldest in mem
bership of the First Baptist Church,
where for many years he had been an
active worker. In early days he was
greatly interested In Chinese mission
SACRAMENTO. Dec 8. Forty-seven
defendants In the Industrial Workers
f the World conspiracy case which
rew out of the investigation of the
ynamltlng or tne borne ol uovernor
William D. Stephens here December 17,
917, will be brught to trial here to
morrow in the United States District
Court on charges of attempting to ob
struct the war programme of the Fed
eral Government. United States Dis
trict Judge Frank H. Rudkin, of Spo
kane, Wash., will preside.
Sixty-two persons. Including' one
woman, Theodora Pollok, of San Fran
cisco, were named in the United States
grand jury indictment. However, four
of '.the defendants, Robert James
Blaine, Ed Burns, Henry Evans and
Frank Travis, have died. Another,
Julius Weinberg, has pleaded guilty,
Several others have not been appre
hended and the cases of four or five
will be disposed of otherwise, accord
ing to the prosecution.
The defendants were accused in the
indictment of a conspiracy to encour.
age sabotags by arson and other means
and of fostering resistance to Federal
war measures and proclamations.
Robert Duncan, special attorney for
the Department of Justice, will con
duct the Government case. He will be
assisted by P. H. Johnson, assistant
United States Attorney, and by George
N. Murdoek, Chicago, special agent of
the Department of Justice, who assist
ed In a cuccessful prosecution of the
I. W. W. case in Chicago.
empty shells and a wilderness of wire.
and ditches and dirt heaps and yawning
holes. Probably It had been cultivated
by some frugal German. Then more
fields of vegetables appeared. The Ger
mans were determined not to be starved.
French Return Home.
Along tbe road came a woman and a
child hauling on a two-wheeled cart
a big heap of household goods. Soon
there were others, women, children, old
men, headed for somewhere, with furni
ture and bedding and other homely
stores. They were French emigres, and
they were going home if they had
anything left of what had formerly
been home from wherever they had
been during four weary years.
The party entered Loos and found
French flag waving from the window
of almost the first house. Loos had
not been entirely spared from British
fire, and later it was seen that other
suburbs had suffered much; but Lille
itself was Intact.
Lille a Fortified City.
Lille Is surrounded by a great em
bankment of earth, mounted by heavy
guns, and has the status of a fortified
city. But It suited' both the British
humanity, or strategy, and the Ger
man policy to spare it from assault o
destruction. The Germans had posses
sion, and expected, or wanted, to stay,
and there remained a French popula
tlon of many thousands which would
have suffered much from British bom
bardment.
The Doual Canal enters Loos an
Lille. The freshest sign of the recen
German presence was a bridge in th
water, destroyed upon h'.s retirement.
But it was at once replaced by a tern
porary wooden structure, and there
was no delay. Soon the party entered
Lille.
The buildings everywhere were sur
mounted by the French colors, with an
occasional British flag. Prominent on
a building was a great sign in English.
"Welcome to our British deliverers."
It was meant not for us, but for the
army which but recently had driven
out the invader.
Strangers Attract Attention.
The streets were filled with women
and children who stood at corners, on
n the walks, and Invariably bowed and
smiled, or waved their hands. Near the
center of tbe town the crowds in
oreased, mostly women, many children,
few men. The strangera were attract
ing great attention. It was the first ci
vilian party, not German,' that had bees
seen in Lille in four years. The people,
long cooped In an .alien cage, were
anxious for diversion, and to see friend
ly faces, and more than eager to tell
their stories.
The excursionists stopped at the pub
lie square, and were quickly surrounded
by a throng of excited and voluble
women, and a sprinkling of men. They
Uld many tales of the German domina
tion. One girl, who had made herself
particularly obnoxious by her Incurable
French loyalty, said She had been ar
rested 13 times on trifling charges, and
had once been fed for 17 days on bread
and water, and made to sleep on
board.
they have a fair start toward rebuild
ing their city.
Back at night to Radlnghem. after a
day's journey of about 140 miles, which
had covered an important sector of the
British war front, and had included in
turn the following towns and cities:
Fruges, St. Pol. Bruay, Bethune, Gi
venchy. La Bassee, Lille, Armentieres
Bailleul, Hasebrouck, Hire. It was all
very hasty, but it was adequate. No
one had left any illusions about the
glories of war.
There was a single bright light in
the darkness of a terrible day the
hope and cheer and optimism of the
people of Lille. One cannot but won
der what might be the state of mind
of the people of Portland which is I
but little larger than Lille if chey
were to be subjected to capture by an
unfeeling and unscrupulous enemy, and
to be kept In thrall by him. for four
appalling years.
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WORKROOM TO MANUFACTURE
ARTICLES FOR HOSPITALS.
50OO Yoanar Girls Deported,
A woman narrated at great length
the town's troubles, and gave many in
stances of petty Prussian tyranny. She
made also the statement that 6000
young girls of Lille had been deported
to Germany an accusation that was
supported in an address to President
Wilson, made later by the people of
Lille, asking him to take measures to
ascertain their whereabouts and to re
turn them. It was said, too, that about
.the same number of young Frenchmen
bad been seat to Germany.
The population had suffered: much
from scarcity of food and high prices.
Two pounds of meat, it was said, cost
5a francs ($10), and other things were
in proportion. It must be said, however
that the people showed few signs of the
long stress. They were smiling and
jubilant and looked anything but
starved. One was asked where all the
French flags came from, how they had
been successfully concealed from the
Germans. She replied that she had kept
her flag under her mattress; and other
women had done the same. The strat
egy of the patriotic French women was
complete, for hardly a building was
without its display of the tri-color.
Motley Procession Encountered.
The editorial party again took up its
journey, and as the suburbs were
neared once more encountered the mot
ley procession of carts, barrows, hand
vehicles of all kinds and descriptions.
TheVe were no horses or ponies, few
men. but women and children, women
and children, pulling along their do
mestic belongings to destinations
known only to them. One carry-all. a
shaky affair of two big wheels, had in
its box two prostrate persons, evident
ly invalids, and it was drawn by a
sturdy female and three children. One
cart was stuck on a railroad crossing,
and SO people were trying to get it
over. Occasionally, but not often, some
one was leading a cow; but cows are
near-luxuries in France; and it is not
now a country of luxury.
These people were going back to
abandoned homes, some of them ruined,
doubtless, and others perhaps left In
tact. They delayed, very likely, out-
Id e the Lille wall and had not been
xempt from shellfire and had gone
away in fear, taking what' they could
and leaving what they must. Now the
Hun was gone and they were safe and
they were going bravely back to be
gin life again. Not many of them had
much to begin it with, but they were
far from being a disconsolate or dis
couraged lot. Had they not been
rescued from the enemy s thrall? Was
not La Belle France their own again?
Armentieres Heavy Snfferer.
To the west of Lille a few miles is
Armentieres, once a thriving town of
30,000 people. First -it was bombarded
and taken by the Germans, and then it
uffered from British reprisals. There
are left only a few ghastly walls. It
is a great heap of shapeless brick,
plaster and stone. Where have the peo
ple gone? What nave tney to come
back to? It is a hopeless prospect for
the evicted population.
A little further on is Bailleul with
10.000 or 15,000 population. It, too, has
changed hands several times in the
war, and has borne the usual conse-
uences. It Is rased to the ground. No
body home.
Hasebrouck, which was also in the
ditorial line of march, had been fre
quently fired on, and was much dam
aged. But the Britsh had held on. and
the people had largely stayed, and now
Ten Power Sewing Machines Are
Installed on Eighth Floor of
Lipman-Wolfe Block.
The big workroom of the Portland
Chapter, American Red Cross, located
on the eighth floor of the Lipman &
Wolfe building, from, which 500,000
surgical dressings Issued last year, will
make its debut this morning as a vol
unteer factory workroom for the man
ufacture of supplies urgently needed in
hospitals for American soldiers.
The workroom has been, equipped
with 10 power sewing machines, loaned
to the chapter, and each machine will
require 10 women to keep it working
to full capacity.
Preparations have been made to ac
commodate 400 workers, for in addi
tion to the machine work there will be
the assembling of Incidentals, such as
buttons, the preparation of parts of
the garments, the cutting, finishing of
parts and the final assembly.
The first order that has come
through to the Portland Chapter calls
for 4500 bathrobes and 7500 pairs of
pajamas. These, it Is declared, are to
fill the wants of American wounded
soldiers.
At the same time it Is the desire of
the chapter to operate to its fullest
capacity the large workroom at 416
Spauldlng building, known as the war
relief' auxiliary and headed by Mrs.
W. J. Burns, on similar work.
Beginning today, th,e Lipman &
Wolfe workroom will operate on a
daily schedule, morning and afternoon.
while the workroom in the Spalding
building will, at present, be operated
only on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and
Fridays, from 9:30 A. M. to 4:30 P. M.
It is hoped to make the main work
room the largest factory in Portland.
It is sanitary, well lighted, warm and
comfortable Sewers of every, kinds
can be accommodated and provided
with just the work for which they are
most suited. Every worker there is a
volunteer.
I should like to see Portland women
literally swamp us, so that we shall be
able to operate to our fullest capacity,"
1 Major I. Lowengart, director.
'It would be a proud boast If we
could make the same wonderful show
ing with these hospital garments that
we made with our surgical dressings."
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.."Ships That Pass
In the Night"
THOSE won't do us very
much good in Portland
and Oregon for they
will be bound to and from
our sister cities north and
south. The kinds of ships
that we can bank on and
bank from are those which
can be made to sight our
signal of Available Dockage,
Good Anchorage and Large
Tonnage.
As yor hope to profit so should
you expect to help promote the
accomplishment of these things.
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WOMAN INJURED BY AUTO
VERA CARPENTER IS TAKEN TO
HOSPITAIi FOR TREATMENT.
George Sault, Superintendent of
"Washougal Woolen Mills, Hurt
When Cars Collide.
BUTTE STRIKE CALLED OFF
METAL- TRADES fXIOX VOTES
TO DELAY PROTEST.
Less Than Half of Montana Labor
Organizations Favor Walkout
In Behalf- of Mooney.
BUTTE, Dec. 8. Announcement was
made by the metal trades council today
that the Mooney protest strike has been
postponed Indefinitely.
A newspaper in wnicn tne metal
trades council owns the controlling
stock, issued an extra this afternoon
advising miners that the strike had
been postponed, giving as a reason the
receipt of advices from the Mooney De
fense League at San Francisco that
Pacific Coast unions had decided not
to strike until after January 14, when
labor congress will bo held in Chi
cago.
Less than hair or the Butte unions
had voted to strike, and, according to
an official or tne Anaconda copper
Mining Company, there are only -600
miners out of a total of 12.000 em
ployed, who have membership in the
Metal Mine workers Union, whlcn
voted to participate in the protest dem
onstration
Mrs. Vera, Carpenter, age 20, of Will
bridge, on the Linnton road, was struck
and knocked down by an automobile
last night, near Willbridge, and suf
fered a deep cut on the forehead, lac
eration of the limb and body bruises.
S. W. Mann, of Willbridge, who was
driving the machine, reported to the
police that he was unable to see the
woman until he was too close to stop
the machine in time to avoid the acci
dent. Me said his vision was obscured
by rain on the windshield;
Ray King, 617 Salmon street, took
tho injured woman to the St. Vincent
Hospital in his car. Deputy Sheriff
Christopherson investigated the .acci
dent and Mann reported the details at
police headquarters.
In a collision between two automo
biles late yesterday at Sixteenth and
Hoyt streets, the car driven by John
Basich, was tossed upon the sidewalk
and the other auto struck the water hy
drant, breaking it eft.
The driver of the other machine did
not give his name. According to the
records, tho car is owned by C. - A.
Strickland, 875 Alblna street.
In a collision between a street car
and an automobile driven by George
Sault. superintendent of the Washougal
Woolen Mills, !ate yesterday, Mr. Sault
suffered severe bruises and was taken
to the Good Samaritan Hospital. The
collision occurred at Eleventh and Main
streets.
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RCLER THANKS AMERICA FOR
PART PLAYED IX WAR.
The Butte local of the International Message Indicates Friendly Feeling
Existing Between Nations Allied
for World-Wide Freedom.
Mine, Mill & Smeltermen, the American
ederation of Labor brganization, did
ot vote ta strike. The metal trades
rganizations were divided 'as to the
Mooney case. The engineers, the second
largest union of Butte, voted against
striking, as did the streetcar men,
clerks, waitresses, teamsters and work
men. The musicians and bakers favored
he protest.
OFFICER OF 65Tn ARTILLERY
TELLS OF ENGAGEMENTS.
Second and Third Brigades Partici
pated In Five Offensives, Start
ing at St. Mibiel.
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Eugene,
Dec. 8. (Special.) With news fresh
from the men in the bath Artillery,
NEW TORK, Dec. S. A message from
King George expressing the hope that
Britains and Americans may be as
united in peace as they were in war
was read today at a meeting in the
Hippodrome arranged as- tho climax
of New .York's celebration of Britain
day.
The King s message, read by Alton is.
Parker, who presided, said that "the
people of the British Empire join with
me in ttninking you and those asso
ciated with you for your efforts in pro
moting this celebration, which will be
welcomed as a proof of the true and
lasting friendship of the United States.
"It will be a particular satisfaction
to my navy and army to feel that they
have won the esteem of the nation
which has sent so many gallant men
to suffer with them the trials of this
great war and to share in the glories
of final victory," continued the mes
sage. I
"In the name of the British Empire,
I thank the people of the United States
Captain Bolton Hamble, member of the V" i J TV ,,;
class of 1908. of the University of Ore- o' ?tV?Srll
united as they are tooay.
gon, arrived in Eugene yesterday. Cap
tain Hamble left France the day the
armistice was signed and arrived in
New York on Thanksgiving day.
Although the second and third bri
gades had been in five offensives, start
A message from Premier Lloyd
George read:
"I am always delighted with any
work; which helps to make our two
g at St. Mihiel. and under shell fire nations understand one another better.
ost of that time, yet there was not a
ngle serious casualty in the 65th, of
hich he had any knowledge. Captain
Hamble said. Some who had been with
e regiment at first had become sepa
rated from their regiment when they
had to be sent to hospitals and he did
not know the condition of these men.
Batteries C and E, of the 65th Artil
lery, are made up largely of Lane
County and university boys, who en
listed in Second and Third companies of
the former national Guard located In
Eugene before they were taken to Fort
Stevens for their final training.
"All of the boys did mighty well,"
Captain Hamble said, "and I. am proud
of every one of them. It is up to me to
tell what they did because when they
come back they will never tell how
bravely they stuck to their guns when
they were ready to drop from exhaustion."
We shall never forget the prompt and
decisive response of the American
President and people to the allied call
this Spring and the Invaluable part
played by the American Navy in help
ing to free the sea from the German
pests."
The programme included a tableau
nortrayine the sinking of the British
warship Vindictive in the harbor of
Zeebrugge.
SPOKANE "FLU" VICTIMS 14
Health Officer Proposes to Comman
deer LIqnor for Hospital Use.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec S. (Special.)
While the majority of the Superior
Court ludves ruled yesterday tney naa
no authority to order liquor "destroyed"
bv turninir It over to nospnais jiu
health officials for use in influensa
cases, a meeting of city and county
health officials and members of legal
departments will be held tomorrow
morning, when It is expeciea biop w"
be taken to commandeer the amount
required for medicinal use.
Dr. J. B. Anderson, city neaiin uiui,
and many others appeared yesieroay
hnfnre the ludees and asked that their
petition be allowed, ordering 100 cases
of liquor destroyed Dy turning n
to the .city health officials and hos
pitals, which was turned down by tne
judges.
Fourteen, the nignest numoer ui
loath from influenza since the epi
demic Invaded Spokane, were reported
hv undertakers' for the last 24 hours,
ending at 12 o'clock last night. Two
hundred seventy-five new cases have
been recorded In the last 24 hours.
URGE PERFECT AGREEMENT
Union or Democratic Powers Held
Solution ot AVorld Peace.
ROME, Dec 8. The Giornale D'ltalia,
commenting upon the meeting of allied
Premiers in London, urges that a per
fect agreement be reached between
England, France and Italy, "naturally
reserving that any definite solution be
agreed to with the 'powerful American
Nation worthily represented at the
peace conference by her great Presi
dent, Wilson." I
. Continuing, the Giornale adds that .
an "Anglo-Franco-Itallan understand
ing would be of the greatest benefit, j
not only for the three European na- j
tions, but for the world and civilization,
as a union ot tne inreo ucimn.in.
powers of Europe would form a bond
for the maintenance of world peace,
representing first a movement towards
an effective constitution of society of
nations which is the luminous ideal
and aspiration of the great American
people and their President."
CONSUL AGENT IS NATIVE
Italian Representative in Portland
Born in Oregon.
Aihort B Ferrara. who has been ap
pointed Italian Consular agent in Port
land.Ms a native of this city, but ihai
field director of the organization. In
an effort to perfect plans for provid
ing employment for soldiers, sailors
and other war workers upon their dis
charge from Federal service.
Mr. Silcox declared that after exam
ining men in numerous cantonments
throughout the country he . estimated
that fully 80 per cent of them will re-
turn to positions held by them prior
to entering military service. He also
stated that much of the work of the
organisation will be lightened by the
action of cantonment commanders, who
will endeavor to place each man In his
former position before he is discharged.
Safe Robber Is Identified.
The "yegg" who attempted to dyna
mite the safe of the Owl Drugstore Is a
member of a gang of six criminals from
the East who have been operating all
along the Tacific Coast, according to a
letter received yesterday from Chief of
Police Conran, of Oakland, Cal. Mr. Con
ran believes the gang consists of four
men and two women, lie names Oakland.
Seattle and Portland as cities where
they operated. In Portland one of the
criminals rented a room Intthe Im
perial Hotel, and was cutting through
the floor into the drugstore when he
was discovered by the clerks. The
criminal escaped before the police ar
rived.
The newest railroad snowplow com
bines an endless conveyor belt and a
retary fan which cuts a way through
the heaviest drifts.
traveled and studied extensively in
Italy, The recent appoioiiiiem vi n.
Ferrara to this post reopens the Royal
Consular Agency in Portland for the
Italian government. Mr. errara Is a
practicing attorney or mis cut, .
well known among the legal profession
of the state.
"I am Indeed pieasea m
a . In th CltV
onnntrV OT TT1 V iLULratvia ' . ....
and state of my nativity," said Mr.
Ferrara. f
EMPLOYMENT MEN MEET
Return of Soldiers to Former Posi
tions Lightens Work.
Cuticura the Foot-Sore
Soldier's Friend
After loner hours of liikini: or guard
ing, when his feet are swollen, hot,
itching or blistered, the soldier will
find wonderful relief in a Cuticura
Soap bath followed by a gentle
anointing with Cuticura Ointment
Cjt Cosfort Itdsag Skis With CBbcsniTajxfl
Bathe with Soap, soothe with Ointment, dim
with Talcum. 25 cents each at all dealers.
DENVER, Dec 8. State directors of
the United States Employment Service,
summoned from 17 Western states,
conferred here today with F. A. Hllcox,
Attorney-General to Take Part.
SALEM, Or., Dec. 8. (Special.) Attorney-General
Brown has been advised
by Governor Wlthycombe to give his
assistance on behalf the state in in
junction -proceedings that have been
instituted to prevent the ejection of thel
Multnomah Guard from the Portland I
Armory. '
United States Railroad Administration
W. G. McADOO, Director General mt Rallreads
PLEASE SAVE YOUR OWN TIME
And help prevent congestion at ticket offices by buying
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Good for bearer or any number of persons on all passenger
trains of all railroads under Federal Control
On Sale at Principal Ticket Offices
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